WordNet
adj. determined by conditions or circumstances not yet established; "arms sales contingent on the approval of congress" [syn: contingent, contingent on(p), dependent on(p), dependant on(p), depending on(p)]
Usage examples of "dependent on".
Of course the success of any species of bee may be dependent on the number of its parasites or other enemies, or on quite distinct causes, and so be altogether independent of the quantity of honey which the bees could collect.
The Russians were pathetically dependent on American grain imports to make up the shortfalls on their own state farms.
Once the settlement grew bigger and was less dependent on the yearly supply ship….
Nor do they realize how easily they could become utterly dependent on those goods and the traders who supply them.
Trip-tine was better than Skulbustium, the hitrip not being so dependent on the groundmood, but Skulbustium was much easier to come by and the whole idea was to bring into the world a baby who would never see the ordinary, drab, loathsome city called London, but always the private wonderland where Poppy spent her life.
There, the old age homes and the like had never become dependent on low-paid slave labor.
On the other hand, if the Palace commander kept us in smoke he himself was entirely dependent on radar.
In vampires these phenomena tend to come and go, largely dependent on the vagaries of diet, and to me they are generally matters of indifference.
My father reminded me that I was entirely dependent on him, and it must have been in answer to that that I made the remark about doing as I pleased after his death—.
They tremble for their liberty, from the influence of a clergy dependent on the crown.
He was in a subtle but compelling manner dependent on her, and he wanted very much to please her.
She also wondered if they had not become too dependent on him for Answers.